The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
RAMANA MAHARSHITrue silence is really endless speech.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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